The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 112
But each night it was the same; the fisherman could not resist the temptation and he left his work to listen to the bird.
Who acts: night, fisherman · What happens: be, not resist, leave, listen, work · To what, where: temptation, work
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 same | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 same | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 resist | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resist | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 resist | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 resist | advmod |
| 13 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 same | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temptation | det |
| 15 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resist | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 resist | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 work | nmod:poss |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 listen | mark |
| 22 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 left | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 listen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | each night | deal nsubj; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not resist | could | the fisherman | the temptation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | fisherman | fisherman's work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | listen | to-infinitive | fisherman not said here | to the bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | ||||
| 5 | work | fisherman | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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